tirs
\tiʁs\
The verdict
“tirs” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,407. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,407
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de vertisol argileux, humique et hydromorphe, propice à l'exploitation agricole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tirs · tirs · French
tirs · rank #5,407 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,407
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tim
Nearest frequency peer: tim (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tirs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- soyons
soyons
94,598 corpus weight
- supérieures
supérieures
94,597 corpus weight
- tim
tim
94,595 corpus weight
- tirs
tirs
94,594 corpus weight
- traits
traits
94,593 corpus weight
- trio
trio
94,591 corpus weight
What this shows « tirs » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tirs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tiʁs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tirs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around tirs (IPA \tiʁs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,407 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for tirs, with forms such as "itrs", "tirrs", and "tirss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TS", "tri", "tre", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is tirs, spelled T-I-R-S.
Definition
- 1Sorte de vertisol argileux, humique et hydromorphe, propice à l'exploitation agricole.
- 2Région du Maroc où l’on trouve ce type de sol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tirs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Grâce à la nature du sol (tirs et hamri) et à l’abondance des précipitations, une grande partie de la zone côtière se prête admirablement à l’exploitation agricole.
Essais faits à la Station de Sidi Slimane sur sols de type tirs et hamri, argileux, compacts, dépourvus de calcaire dans les horizons supérieurs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- itrs
- tirrs
- tirss
- tisr
- ttirs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tirs - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).